You can play whatever you want, but you don't seem to have much recognition of the sound. Recommend it to you is also someone else's opinion. You should listen to the sound by yourself and try it with your metal tray. If you don't define it yourself, then 8000 is chosen by other people's opinions and it doesn't make any sense.

Tele, you seldom fry metal.

Tele: I remember, but there are so many coils that it is difficult to get heavier. I often see people using it in country jazz.